Tourbillon
clock ( # 40 ) |
| A.L. Breguet
|
|
|
|
|||
| |
||||
|
|
||||
|
||||
 |
Abraham Louis Breguet was born in Neuchatel in Switzerland in 1747 and during his life he built some of the most beautiful and well constructed clocks and watches. By way of inventions he gave a strong and innovative contribution to horology. Among these, the most celebrated tourbillon, and ,even if not the first, he introduced a sort of self-winding mechanism in a watch that he called " montre perpetuelle". With his "souscription", a system for which his clients subscribed in advance, he gave the possibility to buy ,with shared payment, his luxury watches and clocks by not so wealthy people. He died in Paris in 1823 in his 76s. |
|
A.L. Breguet
|
|
tourbillon clock menu |
Breguet |
|
home | astrarium
| orrery | regulators
| 8 days |
30 hours | sundials
| wheels cutters | | links | about me | for sale | locomotives | wooden clock | drop me a line| |
|
Reproduction of part or all of the contents
of any of the pages of this site is prohibited except to the extent permitted
below.
These pages may be downloaded onto a hard disk or printed for your personal use without alterations. This copyright notice and the source must appear on each copy. These pages may not be included in any other work or publication, or be distributed or copied for any commercial purpose except with the explicit permission of the author. |